Foursquare Open Source Places: A new foundational dataset for the geospatial community 🔗
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Bluesky WebSocket Firehose 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://tools.simonwillison.net/bluesky-firehose">Bluesky WebSocket Firehose</a></strong></p> Very quick (10 seconds <a href [...]
OpenStreetMap vector tiles demo 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://pnorman.github.io/tilekiln-shortbread-demo/#9.23/37.5982/-122.2625">OpenStreetMap vector tiles demo</a></strong></p> [...]
Using uv with PyTorch 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/integration/pytorch/">Using uv with PyTorch</a></strong></p> PyTorch is a notoriously trick [...]
Understanding the BM25 full text search algorithm 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://emschwartz.me/understanding-the-bm25-full-text-search-algorithm/">Understanding the BM25 full text search algorithm< [...]
Notes from Bing Chat—Our First Encounter With Manipulative AI 🔗
<p>I participated in an Ars Live conversation with Benj Edwards of <a href="https://arstechnica.com/">Ars Technica</a> today, talking about that [...]
Preview: Gemini API Additional Terms of Service 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms_preview">Preview: Gemini API Additional Terms of Service</a></strong></p> Google sent [...]
Security means securing people where they are 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://blog.yossarian.net/2024/11/18/Security-means-securing-people-where-they-are">Security means securing people where th [...]
Pixtral Large 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://mistral.ai/news/pixtral-large/">Pixtral Large</a></strong></p> New today from Mistral:</p> <blockquote> <p>Today we [...]
Qwen: Extending the Context Length to 1M Tokens 🔗
<p><strong><a href="http://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2.5-turbo/">Qwen: Extending the Context Length to 1M Tokens</a></strong></p> The new Qwen2. [...]
Quoting Jack Clark 🔗
<blockquote cite="https://jack-clark.net/2024/11/18/import-ai-392-china-releases-another-excellent-coding-model-generative-models-and-robots-scal [...]
llm-gemini 0.4 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://github.com/simonw/llm-gemini/releases/tag/0.4">llm-gemini 0.4</a></strong></p> New release of my <a href="https://gi [...]
LLM 0.18 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/changelog.html#v0-18">LLM 0.18</a></strong></p> New release of LLM. The big new feature i [...]
Project: Civic Band - scraping and searching PDF meeting minutes from hundreds of municipalities 🔗
<p>I interviewed <a href="https://phildini.dev/">Philip James</a> about <a href="https://civic.band/">Civic Band</a>, his "slowly growing collect [...]
NuExtract 1.5 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://numind.ai/blog/nuextract-1-5---multilingual-infinite-context-still-small-and-better-than-gpt-4o">NuExtract 1.5</a></ [...]
Voting opens for Oxford Word of the Year 2024 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://corp.oup.com/news/voting-opens-for-oxford-word-of-the-year-2024/">Voting opens for Oxford Word of the Year 2024</a>< [...]
Recraft V3 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://www.recraft.ai/blog/recraft-introduces-a-revolutionary-ai-model-that-thinks-in-design-language">Recraft V3</a></stro [...]
OpenAI Public Bug Bounty 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://bugcrowd.com/engagements/openai">OpenAI Public Bug Bounty</a></strong></p> Reading <a href="https://0din.ai/blog/pro [...]
Quoting OpenAI, Google and Anthropic Are Struggling to Build More Advanced AI 🔗
<blockquote cite="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-13/openai-google-and-anthropic-are-struggling-to-build-more-advanced-ai"><p>Ant [...]
PyPI now supports digital attestations 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2024-11-14-pypi-now-supports-digital-attestations/">PyPI now supports digital attestations</a></ [...]
QuickTime video script to capture frames and bounding boxes 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://til.simonwillison.net/macos/quicktime-capture-script#user-content-a-version-that-captures-bounding-box-regions-too"> [...]
Releasing the largest multilingual open pretraining dataset 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://huggingface.co/datasets/PleIAs/common_corpus">Releasing the largest multilingual open pretraining dataset</a></stron [...]
Quoting Steve Klabnik 🔗
<blockquote cite="https://steveklabnik.github.io/jujutsu-tutorial/"><p>This tutorial exists because of a particular quirk of mine: I love to writ [...]
Ollama: Llama 3.2 Vision 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://ollama.com/blog/llama3.2-vision">Ollama: Llama 3.2 Vision</a></strong></p> Ollama released version 0.4 <a href="http [...]
django-plugin-django-debug-toolbar 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://github.com/tomviner/django-plugin-django-debug-toolbar">django-plugin-django-debug-toolbar</a></strong></p> Tom Vine [...]
Ars Live: Our first encounter with manipulative AI 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/11/join-ars-live-nov-19-to-dissect-microsofts-rogue-ai-experiment/">Ars Live: Our first enco [...]
Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is an LLM that can code well that runs on my Mac 🔗
<p>There's a whole lot of buzz around the new <a href="https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2.5-coder-family/">Qwen2.5-Coder Series</a> of open sour [...]
How I ship projects at big tech companies 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://www.seangoedecke.com/how-to-ship/">How I ship projects at big tech companies</a></strong></p> This piece by Sean Goe [...]
Binary vector embeddings are so cool 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://emschwartz.me/binary-vector-embeddings-are-so-cool/">Binary vector embeddings are so cool</a></strong></p> Evan Schw [...]
Quoting Matt Webb 🔗
<blockquote cite="https://interconnected.org/home/2024/11/11/in-our-time"><p>That development time acceleration of 4 days down to 20 minutes… tha [...]